Colorado Buffaloes 2013 football schedule out, all games on Saturdays

Colorado fans in the south stands last season against Washington. (The Denver Post)

Colorado's football conference schedule for 2013 was released Thursday, and it has the Buffaloes opening their Pac-12 home schedule with an Oct. 5 game against Oregon.

And the Buffaloes move back to Saturday to end the season, with the Thanksgiving weekend game against Utah moved to Saturday Nov. 30. CU has played the Friday after Thanksgiving for the past 17 seasons. But the game against the Utes mill move as part of the Pac-12's television deal.

The partnership with ESPN and FOX selected Oregon State at Oregon and Washington State at Washington as the two Pac-12 games for the Friday slots. All of the Buffs' game this season are on Saturdays.

Colorado's other home Pac-12 games are Oct. 26 vs. Arizona, Nov. 16 vs. California and Nov. 23 against Southern California.

The Buffaloes will travel to play at Arizona State, Oregon State, UCLA, Utah and Washington. This will be CU's third season in the Pac-12, so it will not play champion Stanford or Washington State this fall or in 2014 as the schedule rotates against North Division teams for the next two seasons.

Colorado will open the season Aug. 31 against Colorado State, and the Buffs will be the visitors in the game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. CU then has home games against Central Arkansas and Fresno State.

Colorado has bye weeks Sept. 21, which is a week before it opens the Pac-12 season at Oregon State, and then four weeks later on Oct. 19.

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